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We have spotted THROW (5 Letters) a total of 19 times in our database. Below you may see the clues associated with THROW and also when and where was it last seen:
Definition
• | Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. |
• | Time; while; space of time; moment; trice. |
• | To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl. |
• | To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames. |
• | To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock. |
• | To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river. |
• | To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist. |
• | To cast, as dice; to venture at dice. |
• | To put on hastily; to spread carelessly. |
• | To divest or strip one's self of; to put off. |
• | To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels. |
• | To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent. |
• | To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits. |
• | To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver. |
• | To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice. |
• | The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast. |
• | A stroke; a blow. |
• | The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw. |
• | A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw. |
• | An effort; a violent sally. |
• | The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston. |
• | A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a). |
• | A turner's lathe; a throwe. |
• | The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow. |
Referring crossword puzzle clues
- Early sign of life perhaps
- Hurl or toss
- Leader who wrote The Discovery of India
- Roll of the dice
- Decorative blanket
- Word before pillow or blanket
- Lose on purpose
- Make a gridiron pass
- Lose intentionally
- Blanket on a couch
- Fling
- Let fly
- Toss
Usage among publishers:
- New York Times: Nov 12, 2024
- Newsday: Sep 9, 2024
- New York Times: Aug 7, 2024
- Wall Street Journal: Jul 27, 2024
- USA Today: Jun 22, 2024
- USA Today: Jan 30, 2024
- LA Times: Nov 12, 2023
- Newsday: Oct 24, 2023
- Wall Street Journal: Sep 27, 2023
- Universal: Aug 23, 2023
- Newsday: Jul 23, 2023
- Universal: Jul 22, 2023
- Universal: Mar 27, 2023